#slipper

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot. ↗

— John Bunyan

#foot #golden #minds #more #our

The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery. ↗

— Greg Maddux

#grass #hit #ok #once #slippery

Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#bedside #before #best #during #elusive

In the past, I often found that when I reached out for a fast cure it led me down a slippery slope of more medications, hopeful dependence on the next prescription and ultimately a much longer drawn-out illness. ↗

— Carre Otis

#dependence #down #fast #found #hopeful

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery. ↗

— Ovid

#cunning #difference #knavery #leads #lying

Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well. ↗

— Julie Harris

#chamberlain #clothes #his #lovely #richard

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#devil #fail #faith #i #lack

On Jesus' rock, my life abounds; all other floors are slippery grounds. His love for me, is mercy band; any other love is sinking sand. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#band #begotten-son #bible #christ #floor

The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning. ↗

— David Baltimore

#argument #been #calling #cloning #congress

When are we going to say cancer is cured? I'm not sure when that will happen, if that will happen because cancer is a very slippery disease and it involves a vast number of cells in the body and those cells are continually mutating. ↗

— David Baltimore

#body #cancer #cells #continually #cured